Yuppies is there. So are touchdown and show...

UP TO DATE.

May 9, 1986

LONDON — UP TO DATE. Yuppies is there. So are touchdown and show business and soap opera and stetson and uppity and slapstick and ukelele. The fourth and final supplement of the Oxford English Dictionary was published Thursday, ending a 29-year effort to bring it up to date. Editor Robert Burchfield said Americans, not Britons, now have the decisive influence on the language. ''I don't see anything particularly wrong with that. It's inevitable,'' he said. Burchfield also admitted a number of foreign terms. In fact, the Se to Z volume starts with Se, an ancient musical instrument of China with 25 strings.